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Show .·, ·. . t .t .•,· . '·o.t . It. : .. I I . •' •. ..• t I I • I . . . I 1 t t t ... o'tt: :.' II I I t I I o 1 I P 1 o 0 t l I I t 11 1 I I I t t t I 1 t 1 . It It I ·: 't I .. ..'. '. .'. p ...I .I .0. . I t I I I • I I • l .I.· .. . . . . . . . . . ' . . . ···'·' ', I 0 I f t t f f t • • I 0 f t o o t ., t I' I t t I I t t o t t t • t o t t I f ,• ' .. .. ..... . , • f tt f I f II .. D E D I C A T I 0 N~ . , Indufl:ry to. affifl: an Advocate in the Caufe • of Truth, who faw ·her Interefrs abandoned, and felt for her Oppreffion. Though the Tafk might eafily have fallen into abler Hands, I dare freely appeal to your LoRDsHIP for .the Fidelity of my Labours. . I have the Honour to be, with the utmoft Refp.ea, l • My L 0 ll D, Your L o Jt :D s H u'a much obliged,. And moft obedient humble Servant, CHARLES CULLEN. • T R A N S L A, T 0 R 's P R E F A C E. T HE. difcovery of America conftitutes one o~ the mo~ ren1arkable .eras of the world; and the h1ftory of 1t: a fubjeCl: not .only curious but univcrfally interefting, from .. its various conneCtions with aln1oft every other part of the globe. The Spani!h hiftorians of the two preceding centuries have done little towards elucidating this point. Partiality, prejudice, ignorance, and' credulity, have occafioned. the}n all to blend· fo many abfurdities and. in1probabilities with their accounts, that it has . not been. merely difficult, but altogether impoffible, to . afcertain the · troth. To colletl:. from their fcattered materials ·Whatever: wore the face of probability,. that was naturally curious, or poli.t ic~lly interefting, fo as to form .one uniform confiftent relation of the whole,. was a tafk. in which, fbr a long time, 1 no modern writer dared . to engage. Dr. Robertfon at laft undertook, and ' executed · it with the applaufe due to his · beauty of ftyle, his induftry, and his J~lClg:ffient. But notwithftanuing: the affiduity. of liis · refearches, and . the pains he has taken to extricate faCts from the confufion of different authors, . as what is true does · not always appear poffible, and' what ap{)ears probable is not always trnc, he has not entirely fncceecJed, tho.ugh he has · done. all. that· I . . • ' - |